(Vienna 1928 - 2000 Pacific Ocean, on board the Queen Elizabeth II) „La Mosquee“ (The Mosque), signed and dated Hundertwasser 1.1959 La Picaudière, inscription on the reverse: WAX VARNSH SUR PAPIER „LA MOSQUEE” 1959 20F 73 x 60 cm 398 (work no.), watercolour, egg tempera, oil on prepared (chalk, zinc oxide, isinglass) wrapping paper, 73 x 60 cm, framed, (K)

Andrea Christa Fürst, Hundertwasser 1928-2000, catalogue raisonné Vol. II, Taschen, 2002, page 374, catalogue raisonné no. 398 (with ill.) Exhibited: Österreichische Künstler/Austria Artists, Staatliches Kunstmuseum, Baden-Baden, 1959 Hundertwasser, Kestner-Gesellschaft Hannover, Hannover 1964, Österreich zeigt den Kontinenten Hundertwasser, National Museum in Warsaw, 16.04.-23.05. 1976 Friedensreich Hundertwasser Regentag, Haus der Kunst, Munich, February-April 1975 (adhesive label on the reverse) Österreich zeigt den Kontinenten Hundertwasser, Seedamm-Kulturzentrum, Pfäffikon/Lake Zurich,1.9.-28.10.1979 Austria zeigt den Kontinenten Hundertwasser, Museum Ludwig, Cologne, 3.12.1980-6.02. 1981 Österrreich zeigt den Kontinenten Hundertwasser, Secession, Vienna, 7.4.-17.5. 1981, other venues: Kulturhaus Graz, 21.5.-5.7.1981 Hommage à Hundertwasser 1928-2000, Musée des Beaux-Arts et de la Dentelle, Alencon, 2.6.-30.9.2001 Listed and illustrated: Wieland Schmied, Hundertwasser, Oeuvre catalogue, to mark the 100th exhibition of the Kestner-Gesellschaft since its reopening after the war, Hannover, 1964, page 177 Wieland Schmied, Hundertwasser, Monography, published Galerie Welz, Salzburg, 1974, no. 64, page 316 (colour ill.) Friedensreich Hundertwasser Regentag, exhibition catalogue Haus der Kunst, Munich, 1975, page 191 (colour ill.) Österreich zeigt den Kontinenten Hundertwasser, exhibition catalogue of a travelling exhibition: National Museum in Warsaw, 1976; and: Seedamm-Kulturzentrum, Pfäffikon/Lake Zurich, 1979, page 191(colour ill.) Pierre Restany, Happy Hundertwasser-Hundertwasser Heureux, Ballantine Books, New York 1978, page 79 (colour ill.) Österreich zeigt den Kontinenten Hundertwasser, exhibition catalogue of the travelling exhibition: Museum Ludwig, Cologne, 1980; Secession, Vienna 1981 and Kulturhaus, Graz, 1981, German edition, designed by Hundertwasser, page 209 (colour ill.) Reiko Koyanagi (Pub.), Mujinkan 1-Hundertwasser, Tokyo, 1988, page 31, no. 70 (colour ill.) Hundertwasser Bible, Augsburg, 1995, Old Testament, page 789 (colour ill.) Hommage à Hundertwasser 1928-2000, exhibition catalogue Musée des Beaux-Arts et de la Dentelle, Alencon, 2001, page 39 Provenance: Private German collectionHundertwasser made many of his paints himself. He painted with watercolours, in oil and with egg tempera, with shiny lacquers and ground earth. He used various paints in one painting and then juxtaposed them, so that they contrasted not only in their colour but also in their texture. The „chassis“ for his paintings he usually made himself, and he almost always stretched his own canvas. He experimented with many techniques and invented new ones. He painted on different types of paper, favouring used wrapping paper which he often mounted onto various supports, such as wood fibreboards, hemp or linen. He painted on found materials ... from the catalogue raisonné, Fürst, Vol.II, page 48, 49